Trav's Travels

On Thursday, April 17 I went to shoot some pool at the pub with Sheldon, Triston and Adrian. Afterward we found that the wind had done some ...

On Tuesday, April 8th we had another quiz night and, a few days later, I visited Stu and Mariska (friends from Cheeseman) in Te Anau. The ne...

On Monday, March 31st I went to Doubtful Sound again. This time I went with Megan and Angela for a day cruise with Go Orange. We saw peng...

On Monday, March 17th I returned to Milford for the Bridge to Bar run - an event put on for St Patties. After running at an uneven pace I ma...

On Friday, March 7th we had another movie night with a Mexican theme. A week later, I flew into Queenstown and spent a couple days hanging...

On Monday, January 20th I went out on a pilot boat for a cruise ship transfer. Milford Sound is often visited by large ocean liners comin...

On Sunday, January 19th I went out on the Pride (Southern Discoveries) for a cruise and to try their buffet. At one point a lady took a w...

On Wednesday, January 8th I was returning from a camping trip and my sump/oil plug fell out. All my oil drained from my bike and I ended ...

On Thursday, December 28th a Penguin wandered onto the wharf and on the 29th Will showed us how to butcher deer. That night Adrian t...

On Thursday, December 26th JP and I helped move some deer carcasses. The next day we hiked to the top of Bowen Falls. ALL PHO...

For the 25th of December Real Journeys put on a Christmas party for all staff. They put on a huge feed, had  a drawing for a bungy jump a...

On Thursday, December 5th I rode back from camping outside of Te Anau and caught the fire station opening party. We had a great feed whic...

On Tuesday, December 3rd I joined a couple friends on the "Morning Glory" kayak trip from the Tasman Sea back into Milford. As a...

On Friday, November 29th I had my first Thanksgiving feed since 2011. Somehow JP managed to convince Real Journey's management to get ...

On Thursday, November 21st I arrived back from Queenstown carpooling with some friends from Jucy and we all had a barbecue in their garag...

On Thursday, November 14th we went to Shaun's for the first of several gatherings over the course of the week. The next night we had ...

On Monday, November 11th Adrian used an app on his phone to prank call everyone in the village and a couple places in town as well. T...

The Maori translation of Te Anau, "caves of swirling water," was a mystery until explorers found the glow worm caves. On Friday...

On Wednesday, November 6th I took my first scenic flight to get back to Milford. At 45 minutes, the scenic flight is significantly shorte...

On Monday, November 4th I drove into Te Anau in the stores truck to get it a WOF (Warrant of Fitness). From Te Anau I took one of our bus...

On Thursday, October 31st we all scavenged for whatever we could use for costumes. While I made do with a horse head and a grey blazer, ot...

On Tuesday, October 29th we had a bit of fire safety training. Someone set off the extremely loud alarms to get us out to the muster point...